CHELONIA. 751 



liorny covering of the upper jaws was bright yellow, with a blackish- green line 

 along its side to the angle of the mouth. The horny covering of the lower jaw 

 was yellow, suffused with greenish-black, with a symmetrical greenish spot on its 

 inner margin. A few red lines occurred behind the yellow and black lines below 

 the eye, and the throat, internal to the lower jaw, was marked by two brilliantly red 

 oblong marks, placed opposite each other. On the upper surface of the neck, the 

 ground colour was whitish ; the rest of the skin of the neck, around the fore limbs 

 and hind limbs, and along and around the tail, were suffused with red. 



In a young specimen wliich agrees exactly with the figure in the Syn. Rept. 

 and with the upper figure of 111. Ind. Zool., the vertebral plates are rather equally 

 broad throughout, but this is a character of nearly all Batagurs in youth, although, 

 at the same time, the characters and features of the plates are preserved. The ridge 

 culminates on the second and third vertebrals in two almost prominent spines. 

 The posterior external angles of the marginals, from the seventh backwards, form a 

 kind of toothed line, and the caudal notch is small, but very distinct. The ridges 

 along the plastron are well defined. The neck is marked exactly as the specimen 

 last described, and considering it in all its details, there can be no doubt but that 

 the Batagur described as Emys dentata, Gray, is the young of Emys kachuga, Gray. 



This small specimen measured — 



Inches. 



Length of carapace, straight line 3-90 



Extreme breadth across seventh marginal 3-80 



Length of plastron to middle of anal notch ,' . 3*47 



Greatest breadth through second vertebral 1'80 



Axillary breadth 1'45 



Inguinal „ 1'35 



Its palate has the same character as that of the previously described female 

 and male. 



A shell from the Godavery river obtained by Mr. W. T. Blanford, appears to me 

 to be a young female, the only very young example of the sex that has come under 

 my observation. 



It measures — 



Inches. 



Length of carapace, straight line 5-80 



Extreme breadth across seventh marginal . 5-85 



Length of plastron to middle of anal notch 5'15 



Greatest breadth through second vertebral 2*50 



Axillary breadth 2*25 



Inguinal „ 2-10 



This shell has all the characters of the preceding young shell, and the vertebrals 

 are so alike the vertebrals of adult B. lineata that this specimen must be regarded as 

 an example of the species. It is more rounded than the male shell, and in this 

 presents the character of a female, which I believe it to have been. The denticula- 

 tion of the hinder part of the shell is still marked. 



I have removed the skulls from the three smaller female specimens of the 

 table of measurements p. 750, and they agree in every particular with the skull 



